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Example sentences for "slopping"

Lexicographically close words:
sloped; slopes; sloping; slopped; sloppiness; sloppy; slops; slosh; sloshed; sloshing
  1. This supplication ended, he turned to a pale-faced, gaping individual who stood near by, a slopping tankard grasped in nerveless hand.

  2. It was all we could make out, for the sea was slopping into her, and the spray was flying everywhere.

  3. Lange pointed to the water slopping about over the bottom boards.

  4. But Fru Laursen's back began to work, and soon her bulky frame was slopping incontinently about in front of him.

  5. Breakfast in Fillmore Street, never a lively meal, was more dismal than usual that morning, eaten to the accompaniment of slopping water from the roofs on the pavement of the passage.

  6. Some few days afterward, when the troops were slopping around again at Young's Point, opposite Vicksburg, a gentleman arrived on a boat from St. Louis.

  7. Joe ran up slopping two pails of water over the feet of the passengers, followed by the ploughboy and the man without his gun slopping two more each.

  8. The companion doors were stove in as if by a battering ram, and the cabin was flooded in an instant with two feet of water, slopping and lapping among the baggage, and stealing under the doors of the staterooms.

  9. And she couldn't help her name being bandied from mouth to mouth, or 'hiccoughed out over slopping wineglasses,' could she?

  10. I have been in some, where a good deal of what is popularly called 'slopping round' has prevailed; but have been able to get on very well.

  11. I found a deal of slopping and sipping of tea going forward, and many dawdlers assembled.

  12. And now the shallow gorge began to roar under the rising flood; tumbling castles of piled-up foam whirled into view; the amber waves washed through the fringing beech growth, slopping into hollows, setting the dead leaves afloat.

  13. I'm about ready to be killed with hospitality," observed Selden, shouldering gun and sack and slopping along in his wet boots.

  14. Twice there was a false night alarm of the enemy approaching, and the battalion went slopping through the mud and brush into the dark, picking out the best way to retreat, plodding miserably back to camp when the alarm was over.

  15. A score or more shambling forest louts in their dingy Saturday finery were gathered there playing cards, shooting craps, lolling around tables and tilting slopping glasses at one another.

  16. Stormont walked back to his horse, his boots slopping water at every stride.

  17. The fleeting glimpse he had of me drew from him a sound between a roar and a snarl, and with quickened feet he came slip-slopping down the passage.

  18. He approached me slowly, his untidily shod feet slip-slopping on the wooden floor.

  19. Ulysses Grant, was in the neighborhood, and the Hannibal division went hastily slopping through mud and brush in the other direction, dragging wearily back when the alarm was over.

  20. Cutler opened his big watch, and clapped it shut as the sound of mud heavily slopping into the other river reached him.

  21. I don't like children slopping their knowledge all over me," said the Doctor's wife.

  22. He had a momentary recollection of standing in line cold dark mornings and of the sound the food made slopping into mess kits.

  23. They lined up in the dark road feeling the mud slopping under their feet.

  24. Then, with her arm around him, she half forced, half supported him to the port quarter, where his boat was slopping against the side.

  25. The paddles leaped to a rousing song and crashed in unison on the slopping gunwales.

  26. I found a deal of slopping and sipping of tea going forwards, and many dawdlers assembled.

  27. There is no boiling over, no slopping about; and the operation may be performed upon a boarded floor, as well as upon a brick or stone floor.

  28. Meanwhile, keep slopping and wetting the mash with the hot water out of the tub, in moderate quantities, every eight or ten minutes, till all the water is added to the mash.


  29. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slopping" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.